You can buy any enclosures and use the drives with no problems. However, the mac won't be able to write to them, only read from them. You'll have to either copy everything to a third drive, format the two, then copy it back, or copy everything to one drive, format it, copy everything to the newly formatted one, and format the other. Windows uses NTFS, and the Mac needs, I believe, Mac OS Extended. Both Windows and mac can read from each other's file systems, but neither can write to the other's. That's why I said the Mac can read your drives to copy the data off, but not write to them. So, you'll need to preserve your data somehow, then format the drives as the mac file system to make them Mac-only. If you want cross compatibility, go with FAT32, but note that files larger than 4gb will not be supported. On Jan 22, 2014, at 9:36 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli <sarai.bucciare...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi: > Yeah, i could. I just want to use those USB. The drives are still good. If I > couldn't use that internal one with the OS of Windows on it, I'd want to > figure out how to distroy it so no one could get access to my data. > > On Jan 22, 2014, at 7:11 PM, Chris Moore <chris.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> You could also buy an external drive now and copy the data files to it from >> your XP machine before you get the Mini. I'm not sure whether Mac os reads >> the ntfs files system, but you could format the drive as fat32 to be on the >> safe side. >> >> Chris >> On Jan 22, 2014, at 7:52 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli <sarai.bucciare...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi all: >>> I have an old XP machine with two internal hard drives. The main drive runs >>> XP and has files on it. I have a Seagate internal drive in the machine as >>> well. It's 250GB and is used to store data. In April when XP is >>> discontinued, I'm probably going to buy a Mac mini to replace that desktop. >>> Is there way I can buy a couple of drive enclosures to put around those >>> internal drives so I can use them on my mini to access the data? Has anyone >>> done this? >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) mehg...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
